It's easy to forget the US is massive and has a much heavier reliance on our highway network and personal vehicles. It kind of needs to be easier for Americans to get licenses because we literally need them to commute to work and school and stuff
[QUOTE=DanTehMan;51263058]It's easy to forget the US is massive and has a much heavier reliance on our highway network and personal vehicles. [b]It kind of needs to be easier for Americans to get licenses because we literally need them to commute to work and school and stuff[/b][/QUOTE]
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO
It is horrifiingly simple to get your damn full licence in the US that its stupid.
[QUOTE=DanTehMan;51263058]It's easy to forget the US is massive and has a much heavier reliance on our highway network and personal vehicles. It kind of needs to be easier for Americans to get licenses because we literally need them to commute to work and school and stuff[/QUOTE]
Bud I got my license on the first attempt and my only studying was [I]driving to the damn test facility.[/I]
Drivers ed? Nope. Learners? Its a paper test.
YOu can go from no legal right to drive to fully licensed without a single day behind the wheel.
I got mine with no studying whatsoever first try. granted I had been driving illegally for about 4 or 5 years at that point.
driving regularly on your own before getting your license used to be the norm even just 20 years ago, even owning a car before getting a license was common.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;51263048]Whats your gvwr, curb weight does not count.
I belive I beat you all with my unspeakable monster at 17,880lbs gvwr.[/QUOTE]
That is gvwr. I kinda meant that because we were talking about gvwr but I suppose it was confusing in post. I dunno what curb weight is, but probably closer to 8,000lbs or so because this thing is kitted out to flat tow a 1970's car and those are [I]heavy.[/I]
I wish we had the same system as UK when it came to licensing. You have 24 hours of driving ed before you can take your test and you have to use a skid pad for your test.
I'm tired of seeing 16 year olds swerving through traffic, not using their blinkers, and generally driving like morons. Granted, not all of them do that, but more often then not. Then there's the 20-30 year old women... There's no where reason for you to floor light to light and changing lanes at the last second to get one more car ahead in your damn Escalade.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;51263079]No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO
It is horrifiingly simple to get your damn full licence in the US that its stupid.[/QUOTE]
You can disagree with me all you want it doesn't change the fact of the matter that we have such a huge reliance on personal transportation rather than communal transport like buses. And this requirement is much different than literally every other first world country except maybe other huge land masses like Australia.
Any easier would be just showing up and taking your picture for your license and then handing it to you. A written test is no proof that you know how to drive correctly.
[QUOTE=Lerlth;51263263]I wish we had the same system as UK when it came to licensing. [B]You have 24 hours of driving ed before you can take your test and you have to use a skid pad for your test. [/B]
I'm tired of seeing 16 year olds swerving through traffic, not using their blinkers, and generally driving like morons. Granted, not all of them do that, but more often then not. Then there's the 20-30 year old women... There's no where reason for you to floor light to light and changing lanes at the last second to get one more car ahead in your damn Escalade.[/QUOTE]
i just passed my test yesterday and did not have this facing me
[editline]26th October 2016[/editline]
also considering spending £700-900 on a used 53 plate golf match 1.4 - anything to look out for in general or specifically with these?
[QUOTE=Lerlth;51263355]Any easier would be just showing up and taking your picture for your license and then handing it to you. A written test is no proof that you know how to drive correctly.[/QUOTE]
The test is a knowledge test, not a practical exam... It's to show you're not an idiot and know the basic rules of the road.
People fail that test often.
[QUOTE=codenamecueball;51263368]i just passed my test yesterday and did not have this facing me
[/QUOTE]
Hmm, which country was it then? I could have sworn it was England or something. I think Ohio actually has something similar. IDK. Getting your license is way to easy.
I didn't studdy and I'd driven like twice when I passed mine. Got a 93%+ or something. All they had me do was driving down the street, park on the side of the road, do a u-turn, then parallel park. That's it. The 7% fail was because of the parallel park.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;51263079]No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. NO
It is horrifiingly simple to get your damn full licence in the US that its stupid.[/QUOTE]
Which is why our traffic sucks because people tailgate, go slow in the fast lane, make up their own lanes in the city, and generally just don't allow enough space around them to avoid accidents.
[QUOTE=Lerlth;51262807]The guy with the SRT-4 hasn't responded in about a day. :/
I swear, I think people just put stuff on Craigslist to fuck with people. I legit want to buy a vehicle, but so far this is the fourth person to just ignore me after negotiations.[/QUOTE]
Seriously, I've been trying to buy a hard top for my miata and everyone usually responds back "how much you offering?" I tell them I have cash but want to either see it in person, or get some better pictures before I offer anything, and never hear back.
[QUOTE=Lerlth;51263398]Hmm, which country was it then? I could have sworn it was England or something. I think Ohio actually has something similar. IDK. Getting your license is way to easy.
I didn't studdy and I'd driven like twice when I passed mine. Got a 93%+ or something. All they had me do was driving down the street, park on the side of the road, do a u-turn, then parallel park. That's it. The 7% fail was because of the parallel park.[/QUOTE]
i mean, i live in the uk. took me two attempts but got it in the end
[QUOTE=DanTehMan;51263350]You can disagree with me all you want it doesn't change the fact of the matter that we have such a huge reliance on personal transportation rather than communal transport like buses. And this requirement is much different than literally every other first world country except maybe other huge land masses like Australia.[/QUOTE]
He's not disagreeing with that fact. He's disagreeing with the idea that getting a license in the US should be easier. The country would probably see absolutely massive drops in crash rates if every driver was required to have even rudimentary driving school. It's so absurdly easy to get a license with no training these days that I'm genuinely more scared of your average driver in a Carolla than almost any other driver on the road.
[QUOTE=Lerlth;51263263]I wish we had the same system as UK when it came to licensing. You have 24 hours of driving ed before you can take your test and you have to use a skid pad for your test.
I'm tired of seeing 16 year olds swerving through traffic, not using their blinkers, and generally driving like morons. Granted, not all of them do that, but more often then not. Then there's the 20-30 year old women... There's no where reason for you to floor light to light and changing lanes at the last second to get one more car ahead in your damn Escalade.[/QUOTE]
our test is on the road and teenagers still drive like dicks.
[video=youtube;xoHbn8-ROiQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoHbn8-ROiQ[/video]
Oh my shittin shit!
At least other trucks looks like they've gotten their act together quite a bit better, but even still, if they were at highways speeds, even [I]slow[/I] highway speeds, they'd come awfully close to rolling over, if not actually doing so.
Surprised this issue is from a Toyota for some reason. I guess I expected the American brands to do this. Kinda like the Jeep Grand Cherokees.
I finally got some work done on the Celica today.. knocking off the major rusties on the axle. Just going to POR15 it, make it look a little nicer.
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Making a dust storm.
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Put the Eclipse away for the winter, too :(
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The RV generator still won't start. Fucking thing has even less spark now than with the old nasty points and I even put a new voltage condenser in it along with the new points.
I've put out the red alert to my "fix anything RV for a case of beer" buddy and he'll make it run on Sunday. You know the kind of guy, those veteran guru mechanics who can fix anything with the tools in their truck and do it for alcohol.
I think I've finally convinced my brother it makes infinitely more sense to 5.0 swap his ranger with the turbo 5.0 ( 333Ci, Yates C3 heads, trick flow track heat intake setup for a 150 shot and an outlaw SN-95 turbo kit with a T76 among other things) from his mustang that's been sitting in the garage since he sold the roller, rather than spending 4000$+ to supercharge and or spray the vulcan 3.0 with the stock trans that's in there now. Now if only I can convince him to ditch the silly ass 22's and rubber band tires he's got on the thing for some decent mud tires to actually utilize the 6" lift he's got.......
[QUOTE=DPKiller;51263048]Whats your gvwr, curb weight does not count.
I belive I beat you all with my unspeakable monster at 17,880lbs gvwr.[/QUOTE]
I snuck onto the scale at the grain elevator with my truck camper and it said I was at 8500lbs.
The title on the bus [I]says[/I] 9000lbs, because the P.O. had a buddy at the D.O.T. scale, but actually weighs around 12000-13000
[editline]27th October 2016[/editline]
with all the 200 gallons of fuel tanks full and 100 gallons of water tanks full, just a bit more than that.
Take out the instrument cluster in the e320 and change two bulbs on the information display, plug it back in, reconnect battery, and now my speedometer reads 15 miles per hour below my actual speed (needle also falls below 0) and the gas gauge doesn't work. What in fuck. Help?
English isn't my native so please bear with me as I try to explain this.
Me and my dad have reworked the entire break system, pad, cilinders, tubes and hoses. but we can't de-air (?) the system. we can't get any brake fluid to enter the system so we can't force the air out either. I've been pumping the brake but the fluid level won't budge. we've tried sucking the fluid out but that was just minimal what came out. Any idea and how I can fix it?
[QUOTE=Timezbrick;51268148]English isn't my native so please bear with me as I try to explain this.
Me and my dad have reworked the entire break system, pad, cilinders, tubes and hoses. but we can't de-air (?) the system. we can't get any brake fluid to enter the system so we can't force the air out either. I've been pumping the brake but the fluid level won't budge. we've tried sucking the fluid out but that was just minimal what came out. Any idea and how I can fix it?[/QUOTE]
Try to disconnecting any one of the brakes from the brake line in the wheel area. Then hit the brake pedal and if it makes a mess you have good lines / good master cylinder and only plugged up calipers. If no liquid comes out of the line then take the lines off at the master cyclinder and then try hitting the brakes.
Dont let brake fluid stay on paint too long without washing it off with a good soap.
[QUOTE=DPKiller;51268167]Try to disconnecting any one of the brakes from the brake line in the wheel area. Then hit the brake pedal and if it makes a mess you have good lines / good master cylinder and only plugged up calipers. If no liquid comes out of the line then take the lines off at the master cyclinder and then try hitting the brakes.
Dont let brake fluid stay on paint too long without washing it off with a good soap.[/QUOTE]
I'll try that, thanks
[QUOTE=Timezbrick;51268148]English isn't my native so please bear with me as I try to explain this.
Me and my dad have reworked the entire break system, pad, cilinders, tubes and hoses. but we can't de-air (?) the system. we can't get any brake fluid to enter the system so we can't force the air out either. I've been pumping the brake but the fluid level won't budge. we've tried sucking the fluid out but that was just minimal what came out. Any idea and how I can fix it?[/QUOTE]
Did you make sure the reservoir cap was open when you tried to drain it?
[QUOTE=Strontboer;51268911]Did you make sure the reservoir cap was open when you tried to drain it?[/QUOTE]
Everything that needed to be open was open, also checked regularly if the fluid level lowered but nothing happened.
Also the fluid goes from the reservoir to the main cilinder and (and back to the reservoir) but to nowhere from there.
(shitty sketch ahoy)
[t]http://i.imgur.com/PPYp9lz.png[/t]
(Big red X's should be the break pad things and the drum break things)
doesn't flow trough red, does flow trough green.
there is a vacuum when pumping the break tough.
All lines and hoses are new.
Did you bench bleed(de-air) the master cylinder internally itself, if you replaced it?
[video=youtube;kEPXgDGU6_0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEPXgDGU6_0[/video]
[video=youtube;4oi3Y6HMCbc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oi3Y6HMCbc[/video]
[QUOTE=slayer3032;51269763]Did you bench bleed(de-air) the master cylinder internally itself, if you replaced it?
[video=youtube;kEPXgDGU6_0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEPXgDGU6_0[/video]
[video=youtube;4oi3Y6HMCbc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oi3Y6HMCbc[/video][/QUOTE]
I did not replace the master cilinder, should have mentioned that.
Do I need to take it off and bench bleed it?
Are starter solenoids interchangeable? Fucked up the positive thread on the solenoid, and it would be much cheaper to buy a new solenoid than an entire starter.
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